Marcella Hackbardt is a visual artist and educator living in central Ohio. She is a professor of studio art at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Her current work explores aspects of knowledge, self-reflection, the environment, and symbolic states. She received her M.F.A. in studio art/photography from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and a B.A. in studio art from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Weston Gallery in Cincinnati, The Girl’s Club Collection in Fort Lauderdale, Station Independent Projects in New York, Cleveland’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and at The University of Notre Dame, among others. Two of her projected works have been performed at the Ingenuity Festival of Art and Technology, Cleveland. A book project titled Various Unbaked Cookies was included in an exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in New York and Paris, and at the Museum Brandhorst in Munich, Germany.

Her curatorial projects include two exhibitions of contemporary photography at the Riffe Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. She has received recognition and support for her work from OAC Individual Excellence Grants, Kenyon College Faculty grants, the Midwest Society for Photographic Educators, and the Great Lakes Colleges Association. In 2014, she was the Director of the Kenyon Rome Program, traveling to Rome with Kenyon students for four months. She is a Professional Practices Committee Member for the College Art Association.